Means for attaching buttons to garments.



P. K. KARBERG.

MEANS FOR ATTACHING BUTTONS T0 GARMENTS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 5. I9I6.

Patented Dec. 25, 1917.

PETER K. KARBERG, OF DUBUQUE, IOWA.

MEANS FOR ATTACHIN G BUTTONS TO GARMENTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 25, 191 '7.

Application filed April 5, 1916. Serial No. 89,121.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER K. KARBnnc, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dubuque, in the county of Dubuque and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Attaching Buttons to Garments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for attaching buttons to garments and it has for its object the provision of a novel method and arrangement of parts by which a button may be very strongly secured to the garment even though the latter be made of very thin material. Briefly stated, the invention resides in first forming in the garment one or more rows of stitching, preferably with a buttonhole machine or a machine adapted to make a stitch which will not pull out or unravel if one part thereof is severed, and then sewing the button tothe fabric with threads which pass through or about the reinforcements provided by the aforesaid stitching.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a view of a piece of fabric, and reinforcing fabric illustrating stitching formed therein and illustrating in section the threads used to secure the button in place.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view corresponding to the showing in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1 but showing stitching circularly arranged after the manner of stitching produced by a machine for forming buttonholes or eyelets.

Fig. at is a sectional view corresponding to the showing in Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. but showing only one row of stitching.

Fig. 6 is a sectional view corresponding to the showing in Fig. 5, and

Fig. 7 is an enlarged view illustrating the manner of forming the stitch.

Like numerals designate corresponding parts in all of the figures of the drawing.

In the drawing, 5 designates the fabric to which the button is to be secured. I prefer to place beneath each point at which a button is to be secured to the fabric, a reinforcing piece 6 of fabric and through these two thicknesses of fabric form one or more rows of stitching 7. This stitching may comprise two parallel rows as in Fig. 1, a single row as in Fig. 5 or be of circular formation as in Fig. 3. Any of the well-known forms of buttonhole making machines on the market are well adapted to form stitching of this nature and this stitching has the advantage that it will not unravel if severed at one point. The threads 8 which secure buttons 9 to the fabric 5 pass through the buttons and embrace the ribs or welts 7 formed at the inner edge of the rows of stitching of Fig. 1.

In the form of the invention illustrated in Fig. 3, the threads 8 pass upon opposite sides of the stitching 7. The welt 7 formed in each of these cases together with the two thicknesses of the fabric and the gathering oftthe fabric by the act of forming the stitching, produce a very pronounced reinforcement through or about which the threads 8 extend, with the result that buttons may be very strongly secured to garments by the hereindescribed method.

It is, of course, apparent that other forms I of stitching than those herein shown may be employed without departure from the invention, forso far as I am aware, I am the first to provide a pronounced reinforcing welt by means of stitching alone or with the reinforcing fabric, and to utilize such welt as a reinforcing element about which to pass the securing threads of the button.

What is claimed:

1. The combination with a section of fabric, of a row of reinforcing stitching formed thereon which is not adapted to readily ravel, a button having a plurality of spaced holes formed therein, and an attaching thread passed through the holes of the button and through the section of fabric upon opposite sides of the row of reinforcing stitching whereby the attaching thread surrounds the portion of the button between the spaced holes thereof and the reinforcing stitching.

2. The combination with a section of fabric, of a reinforcing section of fabric arranged upon the first named section of fabric, a section of reinforcing stitching formed upon the first named section of fabric and not adapted to readily ravel, a button having a plurality of spaced holes formed therein, and an attaching thread passed through the holes of the button and through the first and second named sections of fabric upon opposite sides of the reinforcing stltching whereby the attaching thread surrounds the portion of the button between the the section of fabric and transversel sur- 3 spaced holes thereof and the reinforcing rounding the plurality of sections 0 reinstitching. forcing stitching.

3. The combination with a section of fab- In testimony whereof I afiix my signature 5 ric, of a plurality of sections of reinforcing in the presence of two witnesses.

stitching formed upon the same in close re- PETER K. KARBERG.

lation, a button havin a plurality of spaced Witnesses:

I holes, and an attac ing thread passing HENRY C. SCHANER,

through the holes of the button and through C ANDREWS, Jr. 

